Paris: Presence Africaine, 1956. Saddle-stapled in printed card wraps. 16pp. Open letter to Maurice Thorez, then-leader of the French Communist Party, from Martinique poet and critic Aime Cesaire detailing his reasons for his resignation from the party soon after the Congress of Negro Intellectuals. This copy from the library of.....
Calais, VT: Z Press, 1999. Saddle-sewn in light green yapped French wraps with title card mounted on front cover, 9-3/4 x 6-3/4 in. [12]pp. Copy "Z" of 26 lettered copies signed at rear by Ashbery, with an original five-color print by Murray bound in and signed by her in pencil.....
Japan: Gakken, 1985. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, sharp corners, square tight binding, some fraying along front edge of spine, light shelving and handling wear. Slipcase is in good condition, some rubbing and light fraying along edges and front and rear panel of case, light soiling, still sturdy.....
![Item #2464 The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones [signed]. Charles Neider](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2464.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722526655)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Jacket Photograph by Charles Neider. First Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo in pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth with lettering stamped in white to spine. 205pp. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper. First Edition of this literary Western, which served as the basis for the.....
London, England & Dunmow, England: Pall Mall Press, 1962. Hardcover 8vo charcoal boards with white lettering in an illustrated jacket, 296 pp. Gift inscription on front free end paper: "For Wayne Fredericks with all good wishes Carl Legum London March 1962". [J.] Wayne Fredericks was a career diplomat.....
London: Calder & Boyars, 1968. Jacket design by Brian Catchpole. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 117 pp. Second published novel of Guyanese painter and author Denis Williams.
San Francisco: Artspace Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover, 6-3/8" x 8-1/4", illustrated boards, pictorial endpapers, no dust jacket, [1-10] 11-13 [14-15] 16-20 [21] 22 [23] 24 [25] 26-31 [32] 33-36 [37-40] 41-46 [47] 48 [49] 50-52 [53] 54 [55-56]. Dennis Cooper and Nayland Blake collide in Jerk! Title page signature.....
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, [1982]. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 182, [6]pp advertisements. Twelfth and final issue of Cooper's journal, a canonical periodical of the 1970s/80s underground literary scene. This issue, guest-edited by Ian Young, is titled "Overlooked & Underrated" and features an impressive cast.....
Thiruvananthapuram / Madras: University of Travancore, 1947. Hardcover octavo in printed dust jacket. Red cloth with lettering stamped in black to front and spine. viii, 166pp, with 16 black and white photographic plates tipped in throughout. Book-length survey on the evolution of Beauty as a concept in multi-faceted aspects of.....
Hatje Cantz, 2011. Hardcover. Light dings, scratching, and fraying at the corners of spine board. Binding is tight and leaves are bright and free of soiling. Small, 1 in creasing to the bottom left of some pages. Very good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1923. First Edition, stated. Hardcover octavo (5-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches). Burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. 242pp. First Edition of Emma Goldman's book regarding her deportation from the United States to Russia and her critiques and dissatisfaction.....
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. Signature-bound [octavo] in pictorial wrappers. 76 pp. Scarce copy of Cardenal's first book published in the English language. Ernesto Cardenal, one of the major Latin American writers of the 20th century, was an artist, poet, and priest. Highly active in the Sandinistan revolution, his.....
Beijing: Editions Xin Dong Cheng/Top Space, 2004. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps with french flaps, 7 1/4" x 9 3/8", 160 p. Signed catalog from Ma Liuming's ten-year retrospective exhibition. Supplementary text includes an interview conducted by Tang Xin and critical essay by Caroline Puel, with all text translated in.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 110 pp.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 224 pp.
Steidl Germany: Gordon Parks Foundation, 2012. Hardcover gray cloth boards with black and red lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, folio, 335 pp.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First U.S. edition. Hardcover, octavo, embossed brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, publisher's black top stain, 132 pp. The epic poem of a generational spaceship making an escape from earthly cataclysm only to avoid a tragic crash with space trash forcing.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 568 pp.
New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1857. Fourth Edition. Hardcover 8vo, brown cloth with all over decorative stamping, some gilt. [24 plates], 163 pp, 106 pp, [48 plates]. Fourth Edition of this scarce masonic text, quite scarce in any of its early editions, and bearing the bookplate of Lewis G......
![Item #2890 Black World [19 Issues]. John H. Johnson](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2890.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727999834)
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, December 1971 - July 1974. Signature-bound octavo (5-3/8 x 7-5/8 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, 98 pp. Grouping of 19 Issues of John H. Johnson's Black World magazine. Issues included: February 1971: Vol. XX, No. 4 December 1971: Vol. XXI, No. 2. A conversation with Dudley.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. Jacket design by Charles Mozley. First UK edition. Hardcover, [octavo], beige cloth boards, yellow spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 304 pp. The second of four novels Hearne wrote between 1956 and 1961 set on the fictionalized island of Cayuna.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1968. Jacket Design by Donald and Ann Crews. First Edition, stated. Hardcover 8vo, half mustard cloth over black boards, maroon stamped lettering to top cloth and spine. 256 pp. Little known memoir from Johnny Otis, the father of Shuggie Otis and the "Godfather of.....
New York: Una Editions, 1984. Perfect-bound, large octavo, pictorial wraps, 96 pp. Lesser-known epigrammatic writings of abstract expressionist and medical scientist, Alfred L. Copley. The title was inspired by an exchange between a Zen abbot and Copley in 1965 during a prompt to make ink drawings in an isolated large.....
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1960. Drawing by R LaVigne. First Edition of 500. Saddle-stapled (6.25 x 8 inches) in printed card wrappers. 6pp with [1]pp illustration. Scarce first book from the enigmatic Beat and San Francisco Renaissance poet Lew Welch (1926-1971), whose brief literary career continues to have a resounding.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. First edition, third printing. Hardcover 6 1/2" x 9 1/2", quarter orange cloth boards with speckled brown paper and maroon lettering and decoration in pictorial paper dust jacket, 1198 pp.